> Tracey writes:
> >
> > NEWS FLASH- The shuttle is breaking apart coming back!!!!
>
> All the spacerace hype has nothing to do with Gnosticism.
> It's necessary to escape from this hyletic plane of existence,
> not from the planet earth which is just one particular
> objectivation of the concept 'planet'.
>
> Klaus Schilling

Ernst, that quote is an excellent example, IMO, of how we
view such events as we come to perceive the world as passersby.The imagery of witnessing such a sight
(falling from the sky) and the paradox of the simultaneous “beauty and tragedy”
in our lives remind me of another contemporary quote that similarly captures the
moment.For anyone who missed the
film, this comes from Kevin Spacey’s character in American Beauty,
and I think it’s well worth the watching.

I’d always heard your entire life flashes in front of
your eyes the second before you die.First of all, that one second isn’t a second at all.It stretches on forever like an ocean
of time.

For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp,
watching falling stars.

And yellow leaves from the maple trees that lined our
street.

Or my grandmother’s hands, and the way her skin seemed
like paper.

And the first time I saw my cousin Tony’s brand, new
Firebird.

And Janie——and Janie.

And Carolyn.

I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened
to me, but it’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the
world.Sometimes I feel like I’m
seeing it all at once, and it’s too much.My heart fills up like a balloon
that’s about to burst.

And then I remember to relax and stop trying to hold onto
it, and then it flows through me like rain.And I can’t feel anything but
gratitude for every single moment of my stupid, little life.

You have no idea what I’m talking about, I’m sure, but
don’t worry——you will someday.

“Relax...,” huh—I know from experience that it can be
difficult, but certainly something to shoot for. ;-)

such events as we come to perceive the world as passersby.
The imagery of witnessing such a sight (falling from the sky) and
the paradox of the simultaneous "beauty and tragedy" in our lives
remind me of another contemporary quote that similarly captures
the moment. For anyone who missed the film, this comes from
Kevin Spacey's character in American Beauty, and I think it's well
worth the watching.

I hate that I still haven't seen that one---can you believe it?!!
LOL I just looked at the lyrics, though, and venture to guess that
even Klaus would approve of the last line.

Gerry

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For the edification of the entire group, here are the lyrics to Galaxy Song from the Monty Python movie, The Meaning of Life . Just remember that you re

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For the edification of the entire group, here are the lyrics
to "Galaxy Song" from the Monty Python movie, "The Meaning of Life".

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
and revolving at 900 miles an hour,
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
the sun that is the source of all our power.
The Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars,
it's 100,000 light-years side-to-side,
It bulges in the middle, 16 000 light-years thick,
but out by us it's just 3 000 light-years wide.
We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point,
we go round every 200 million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
in this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
in all of the directions it can whizz,
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know,
twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
how amazingly unlikely is your birth,
Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
because there's bugger all down here on Earth.

> For the edification of the entire group, here are the lyrics
> to "Galaxy Song" from the Monty Python movie, "The Meaning

of Life".

>

You must have the "Python Song Book" but do you have the script
book of the film? Anyway, my favorate is "The Life of Brian"

Life's a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true,
You'll see it's all a show,
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you
And always look on the bright side of life...

> > >
> > > Mir gefällt "Galaxy Song" in _Sinn des Leben.
> >
> >
> > I hate that I still haven't seen that one---can you believe it?!!
> > LOL I just looked at the lyrics, though, and venture to guess

that

> > even Klaus would approve of the last line.
> >
> > Gerry

Off the topic from this group but since we are talking about the
Pythons I saw the other day "Lost in La Mancha" a documentary
film about Terry Gilliam's attempt to make a film about Don
Quixote. the film is the case of art imitating life and life imitating
art . Gillium's attempt to make the film mirrored Quixote....
impossible dream... dare to say quixotic?.

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